New editor, cosponsor, and editorial board structure.Effective with this issue, Baptist History and Heritage experiences four major changes. It has a new editor It has a new cosponsor co·spon·sor tr.v. co·spon·sored, co·spon·sor·ing, co·spon·sors To function in the capacity of a joint sponsor of: corporations that cosponsored a marathon. n. It has new content features. And its Editorial Board has a new structure. First Pamela R. Durso is the new editor. Employed by the Baptist History and Heritage Society (BH&HS) as its associate director, effective June 16, 2003, Pare was immediately named editor of the society's journal. The publication will continue to improve under her leadership. Pam brings superb credentials to the task. With an M.Div. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, is a private, non-profit institution of higher education, associated with the Southern Baptist Convention, whose stated mission is "to provide theological education for individuals engaging in Christian and a Ph.D. from Baylor University Baylor University, mainly at Waco, Tex.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1845 by Baptists (see Baylor, Robert E. B.) at Independence, moved 1886 and absorbed Waco Univ. (chartered 1861). The library has a noted Robert Browning collection. , she served from 1999 to 2003 as assistant professor of church history and Baptist heritage at the Campbell University Divinity School The Campbell University Divinity School, founded in 1995 and located in Buies Creek, North Carolina, is one of six schools that comprise Campbell University. The school is affiliated with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina as well as the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship . At Campbell, she taught courses in general church history, the Reformation Reformation, religious revolution that took place in Western Europe in the 16th cent. It arose from objections to doctrines and practices in the medieval church (see Roman Catholic Church) and ultimately led to the freedom of dissent (see Protestantism). , American Christianity, Baptist history and heritage, women in Christian history, the history of Christian missions, and worship and spiritual formation. Mercer University Press Mercer University Press, established in 1979, is a publisher that is part of Mercer University. External link
Second, The Center for Baptist Studies of Mercer University Mercer University is a private, coeducational, faith-based university with a Baptist heritage, located in the U.S. state of Georgia. Mercer is the only university of its size in the United States that offers programs in eleven diversified fields of study: liberal arts, is the new cosponsor of the journal. Walter B. Shurden is the center's executive director. The center will provide $3,000 per year to support the publishing of the journal and will promote both the publication and the BH&HS through its Baptist Studies Bulletin and Web site. This cosponsoring agreement will significantly benefit both the BH&HS and Mercer's center. Relating the journal to a major Baptist studies program directed by a major Baptist historian in a major Baptist university can only elevate el·e·vate tr.v. ele·vat·ed, ele·vat·ing, ele·vates 1. To move (something) to a higher place or position from a lower one; lift. 2. To increase the amplitude, intensity, or volume of. 3. the prestige of the publication. Walter Shurden has demonstrated through various actions that the center he directs both affirms and shares a strong kinship kinship, relationship by blood (consanguinity) or marriage (affinity) between persons; also, in anthropology and sociology, a system of rules, based on such relationships, governing descent, inheritance, marriage, extramarital sexual relations, and sometimes with the BH&HS. The BH&HS equally acknowledges the valuable contributions of Mercer's center to the improving health of Baptist studies today. Third, two new content features in each issue of the journal include: (1) a two-page article by the executive director of The Center for Baptist Studies of Mercer and (2) the dedication of the back cover to copy relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc that center. Fourth, the editorial board has a new structure officially approved both by the BH&HS and by the board during their annual meetings on May 22-23, 2003. Previously, the board consisted of representatives of Baptist colleges and universities that annually donated $500 or more to the BH&HS. The new arrangement retains those representatives but adds three new persons to the board: the editor, the executive director of the BH&HS, and the executive director of Mercer's center. In addition, the BH&HS and the editorial board approved the creation of an executive committee of the board comprised of five persons: a chair and vice chair elected by the board, the editor, and the executive directors of the BH&HS and Mercer's center. Functionally, the board at large will meet annually and discuss and vote on issues presented to it by the executive committee and/or on issues that it chooses to raise. Between annual meetings, it will function only in an advisory capacity to the executive committee and editor. The executive committee will serve as the key decision-making body for the journal between annual meetings of the board and will present recommendations to the board for consideration during its annual meeting. Baptist History and Heritage has butt strong foundations since 1965. With complete confidence, we now turn the leadership of the journal over to Pam Durso. She will give the publication the professional attention it deserves. The Baptist historical community at large will profit from her investment. Charles W. Deweese Executive Director-Treasurer Baptist History and Heritage Society |
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